Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palos from which they had so lately set their sails. To the front lay the Cape, beckoning them to newer worlds. Beyond still farther fell that mystic headland which sailors have come to revere as do Gata, and then, still farther, farther to the East, lay the still silent rock which kept the entrance to their maritime knowledge. Beyond,--beyond that rock few men had ventured, and those who had, dared not to pass in straight defiance of the beetling brow of the noble Cape St. Vincent, so stern a guardian of the continent. But through the rock, and beyond...
Before he turned silent, Hauptmann told police an incredible tale about how the Lindbergh ransom came into his possession. He thought the money was "old letters left by a friend." After the friend, one Isadore Fisch, died in Leipzig last March Hauptmann discovered the money, and appropriated...
...speech, knew that the Government was preparing to balance the 1935 budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...
...flag immediately after the first foul, Endeavour had deprived Rainbow of a chance to enter a counterprotest, thereby preventing the Committee from disqualifying Endeavour in case it found Rainbow rather than Endeavour to be the injured party, the Race Committee refused to entertain the Sopwith protest. Mr. Sopwith kept silent until after...
...centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle, silent factories, skulls, reaching arms, and a reformer chasing nudes out of the cinema...